Jeremiah’s Hope Expanded to Jefferson State Community College
In March 2020, COVID shuttered the restaurant where Kayla Hollon waited tables. Soon she couldn’t pay her mortgage. Buying groceries for her eight-year-old son became a challenge. Today, thanks to UAB St. Vincent’s Foundation-funded Jeremiah’s Hope medical jobs training program, Hollon is an St. Vincent’s certified clinical medical assistant. Working alongside a nurse practitioner at […]
Why We Give: Wadsworths’ Endowment Supports Chilton County “Family”
Jim Wadsworth remembers the moment he heard St. Vincent’s might build a hospital in Clanton. “I thought that would be a home run,” says Jim, who owned Clanton-based Wadsworth Oil Company before his 2020 retirement. “I knew I wanted to support that effort. Since 2016, St. Vincent’s has been the best thing that ever happened […]
How Donor Dollars Saved a Rock Star: “I never imagined it would be used on me.”
For more than a year J. Ryan Humphreys, M.D. campaigned for a UAB St. Vincent’s East Emergency Department ultrasound machine. “It was kind of my baby,” he says. “I thought this would be a very valuable piece of equipment. So, the Foundation got it for us, and it was fantastic.” Humphreys was so proud of […]
The Newtons, The Foundation, and College Gameday: How One Family Honored Their Loved One
While other football fans reminisce this fall about the pre-COVID joys of packed stadiums, tailgating, and campus-wide celebrations, Jane Newton remembers watching 2019 college football on a tiny hospital TV screen. She particularly recalls jumping from her seat one Saturday to see the replay of Tide running back Najee Harris hurdling over a defender. “I […]
Baseline CTs and Best-in-the-Country Cardiologists: What Bill “Bubba” Bussey Wants Everyone to Know
Bill “Bubba” Bussey, co-host of the Rick and Bubba Show, is intent on sharing what he learned from his June health crisis in hopes that others will seek heart and life-saving CT heart scans. Bussey’s cardiac story started when his routine primary care checkup with John Farley, MD at St. Vincent’s One Nineteen included a […]
Why We Give: D’Amico Family, Firm Provide Continuous Support
Frank D’Amico III was surprised to discover, outside a few long-time St. Vincent’s Associates, his BTC Wholesale Distributors has the longest consecutive giving record of any UAB St. Vincent’s Foundation donor. “I was not tracking how high we were as far as dollars and cents, but we are among the highest consistent supporters,” says this […]
The Pooles’ Remarkable Story
It was early Monday, January 9, 2017 when Conyers and Lucy Poole arrived at St. Vincent’s Birmingham. After a perfectly normal first pregnancy, Lucy was scheduled to be induced. Later Conyers would remember snow on the ground from Friday’s storm, and realize that if little Max Poole had come a few days earlier, many of […]